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    BOS A BONHEUR * . 241

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    -Afta— At The Southern End Of The Rue D'...

    tlie peculiar aspect of crag 3 mountain , valley , and plain , of trees and herbagethe poetic effects of cloud , mist , and sunshine , and o £

    the different , hours of the day ; in short , all the varied beauty and sublimity of earthare as profoundly and skilfully rendered as

    , are the outer forms and inner life of the animals around which the artist , like her great teacher , Nature , spreads out the charm and

    glory of her landscapes . She has already made a fortune by her pencil ; but a fortune which she has bestowed entirely on others ,

    with the exception of a little farm a few miles from Paris , where she now spends a good deal of her time ; and such is her habitual

    generosity , and so scrupulous is lier delicacy in all matters connected with her art , that it may "be doubted whether she will ever amass any

    great amount of wealth for herself . Her portfolios already contain nearly a thousand sketchesmany of them surpassingly beautiful , and

    , all eagerly coveted by amateurs . But she regards these sketches as a part of her artistic life , and as such , refuses to part with them on

    any terms , although she is fully aware of the sums they might be made to yield ; a little drawing of hers , that had accidentally found

    its way into the hands of a dealer , having fetched £ 80 a short time since in London . * Demands for paintings reach her from every

    part of the world ; but she invariably refuses all orders not fully congenial to her talent . Many instances might be cited of her

    scrupulous probity and dignity in this respect . The award of the Jury in 1853 , in virtue of which the authoress

    of " The Horse Market " was enrolled among the recognised Masters of the Brush , and , as such , exempted from the necessity of

    submitting her works to the Examining Committee previous to their admission to future Exhibitions , entitled her—according to French

    usage in such cases—to the Cross of the Legion of Honor . This decision , which would necessarily have been bestowed on her had

    she been a man , and which is frequently accorded to nuns and sutlerswas refused to the Artist by the Emperor , because she was a

    , _tvoman . This refusal , repeated after her brilliant success of 1855 , has

    naturally excited the indignation of her admirers , who cannot talent understand in a man why should an honor be refused which would to this be same accorded talent to when a certain this

    talent is bestowed , by nature upon a woman . But , though Rosa was included in the invitation to the State Dinner at the

    Fine Tuileries Arts always has awarde given d to- its the hi artists hest honor to whom the the refusal Academy of the of

    g , decoration has been maintained , _notwithstanding the _numerous efforts that have been made to obtain a reversal of the Imperial

    decision . reserves * Mdlle those . Rosa with Bonheur which she never is willing sells any to part of for her presentation drawings directl to charities y , but . of those thus

    The drawing alluded to was one presented .

    Bos A Bonheur * . 241

    BOS A _BONHEUR * . 241

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/25/